Today's News

PERRY COUNTY – Citing financial crunches that are leveling local governments, with particularly large impediments posed from rising insurance costs, the Perry County Council hopes to have more input toward departmental hiring.

TELL CITY – The United Way of Perry County will sponsor Aug. 8 what organizers say should be a fun-filled, action-packed game of human foozball.
Two teams of seven people, while holding on to a series of rotating poles, will try to shoot-kick a soccer ball through the opposing team’s goal.
It will be just like the table game, but with live people instead of wood figures or paddles. No back flip experience is required.
The tourney will be held in City Hall Park between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., with each game lasting 30 minutes.

TELL CITY—The Hoosier Heights Country Club will once again sponsor and host the Schweizer Fest golf tourney Aug. 8-9.
It will be a two-person best ball both days (partners each play their own ball through each hole, but record only the better score) with flights established after Saturday’s play. Play will begin with a shotgun start both days at 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

The declining number of American Legion baseball teams in southwestern Indiana has to make one wonder about the future of the sport in this area.
As recently as 1998 this area hosted a five-team sectional, including Perry County’s entry. The winners of four southern Indiana sectionals would advance to a regional.
In 1999, the last year Perry County fielded a Legion team, the sectional was down to four teams.
By 2011 it was a two-team sectional, with just Rockport and Boonville in it.

TELL CITY – Tell City High School’s Class of 1960 will host its 55-year reunion Friday, Aug. 7, at the Hoosier Heights Country Club. The evening will begin with a social hour and cash bar at 4 p.m. A class photo will be taken at 5 p.m. followed by a meal at 5:30 p.m. A program will follow with music by The Recycled Teenagers.